qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-1.7b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

58 vs 19

Hardware Fit

68 vs 64

Quality Score

54 vs 0

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-1.7b

MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM24 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen3-1.7b

Tokens/sec16.75.9

First chunk23 ms2111 ms

TTFT14.1 s2.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage7.8 GB1.2 GB

Memory %33%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

36/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3-1.7b

Speed

21/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

24/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

9/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3-1.7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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